If you sign up for Verizon FiOS or High Speed Internet Triple Play bundle and buy an iPhone4, Big Red will not only knock $10 a month off your monthly FiOS bill ($5 off your HSI bill), they'll give you a $200 credit you can apply to the cost of the phone. That's essentially a free 16GB iPhone4. [Verizon]

Hey Verizon iPhone user! Our gamer dudes at Kotaku made a list of the best games currently on the iPhone, so you can get in on what everyone else has been doing for almost three years. Most of these games are relatively new, so you might also want to try some classics like Fruit Ninja. If you're looking for someone to…

Apparently iPhone apps that need to have deeper access to the hardware, like Telenav's navigation, need a specific Verizon version in order to work. It might be due to differences between GSM vs. CDMA radios, or the GPS chip. [ZDNet]

If your main concern for a Verizon iPhone purchase is the ability to use jailbreak apps (or maybe pirate apps), worry no more. The iOS 4.2.6 is plenty jailbreakable using the greenpoison tool. FaceTime over 3G! [RedmondPie]

January has come! And gone. And with it, a lot of broken New Year's Resolutions. But also, new additions to our wonderful list of favorite gadgets. Check out the full roster of Bestmodo's newest inductees below.

The Verizon iPhone's official and it's almost here. That makes it entirely reasonable for Verizon to make a ridiculously dramatic commercial to remind us that there are still weeks to go before the agonizingly long wait is actually over. [Engadget]

According to this leaked photo over at Gear Live, AT&T's going to be reworking its messaging plans next week. The $5/200 and $15/1500 texting plans will disappear, and in their place? A simplified system that beats Verizon's messaging offering handily.

Any Verizon customer who regrets picking up a new phone between Thanksgiving and the day of the Verizon iPhone announcement won't have to kick themselves too hard; the carrier's granting $200 debit cards to people with iPhone 4-inspired buyer's remorse.

According to BGR—who's got a good track record with these things—iOS 4.3 will bring personal hotspot capabilities to all iPhones regardless of carrier. We already know Verizon's on board. What say you, AT&T?

If you're excited about today's Verizon iPhone bonanza, it's for one reason: hoping for the shining light of non-sucky service. Here's all of the news (and opinion) you need to get caught up on what might be your next phone:

It's conventional wisdom now that iPhone exclusivity is the best and worst thing that ever happened to AT&T. A rocket that sent them into space—and directly into the sun. Will the same thing happen to Verizon?